{"id":693,"date":"2005-04-08T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T00:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=693"},"modified":"2005-04-08T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T00:54:02","slug":"693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/04\/08\/693\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003371\"><\/a>I mention George Bush, and get this back at me:  &#8220;I wish we could have a president like Martin Luther King, Jr.  He had some really good ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why he had to be killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Riiight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is that period of time where I become a bit loopy.  Somewhere or other, she goes onto the subject of the recently passed Bankruptcy Reform Act &#8212; a bill whose passing tends to reinforce the idea of a one-party state in my mind (Republican Senators all voted for it, Democratic Senators half and half).  The idea being that the Democratic Party gets to duck behind having &#8220;saved Social Security&#8221; while still having paid their dues to the Insurance and Banking Industries, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, the Senator that effectively killed and stalled that bill throughout the entire decade of the 1990s was Paul Wellstone, and&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before I could finish that thought (a loopy conspiranoid one to be sure), a third party derails the whole thing to a point of no return&#8230; how he would, on the first day of his presidency, declare &#8220;ALL CORRUPTION IS NOW STOPPED!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t happen of course.  Look what they did to Robert Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mention George Bush, and get this back at me: &#8220;I wish we could have a president like Martin Luther King, Jr. He had some really good ideas.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s why he had to be killed.&#8221; &#8220;Riiight.&#8221; This is that period of time where I become a bit loopy. Somewhere or other, she goes onto the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}